wife
[waɪf]
The verdict
“wife” has 5 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #32,871. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,871
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - verheiratete Frau, Ehefrau
Corpus desk
Index DE-wife · wife · German
wife · rank #32,871 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,871
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH windig
Nearest frequency peer: windig (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „wife“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- wet
wet
67,134 corpus weight
- Wetterlage
Wetterlage
67,133 corpus weight
- wife
wife
67,130 corpus weight
- windig
windig
67,129 corpus weight
- winke
winke
67,128 corpus weight
- Wochenstund…
Wochenstunden
67,127 corpus weight
What this shows „wife“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wife |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [waɪf] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #32,871 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „wife“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around wife (IPA [waɪf]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,871 among 2,930 “W” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for wife, with forms such as "iwfe", "wfie", and "wief". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "wir", "wtf", "Wil", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is wife, spelled W-I-F-E.
Definition
- 1verheiratete Frau, Ehefrau
- 2Frau
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how wife appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He married his wife at the age of eighteen.
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iwfe
- wfie
- wief
- wiffe
- wwife
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of wife - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "wife", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).